Comments on: A123 Thinks Big about Electric Cars from Norway

By: Mike Jaye

Mike Jaye — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:12:50 +0000

Tom,
GM can’t bring back the EV1 because it was licensed to Saturn, which they no longer own. It is my understanding the EV1 was a project, nothing more. GM never planned to market the cars to the general public, but when they became popular the story was the oil companies got to them. Truth be told the Spring Hill plant was not equipped to handle building them and Saturn was losing money. So the EV1 project was scrapped. And if I remember correctly, the EV1 could get about 80 miles on a full charge. It also doesn’t have all the features the Volt is supposed to have. Being a Saturn owner I’m wondering if the Penske people will consider bringing back a version of the EV1 when they take over production in 2011. Now that would be interesting.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:14:56 +0000

What I don’t understand is that we had the GM EV1 in 1996 which got 125 miles to a charge and now in 2010 we get a Volt that only gets 40 miles to charge. Isn’t this backwards? Why can’t G M bring back the EV 1? I didn’t know they even existed until they destroyed them.

By: owlafaye

owlafaye — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:43:13 +0000

Until you can buy a Think outright…no strings attached…it will continue to be a “smoke & mirrors” project.

By: khooper

khooper — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:42:28 +0000

An interesting concept and the range sounds good for an electric, but the $100 – 200 rental fee, in addition to a relatively high price for the vehicle itself, may prove difficult to overcome. Upgrading cars means upgrading car parts also? Uhm.. maybe carpartswholesale.com will be upgrading too

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:07:35 +0000

Selena:
Buying a Think. As I understand it, the Think “will”(read-maybe) be sold in the USA
sometime in 2009. I have a friend in Norway. She says they are being sold, there, now. Shipping from Oslo to California could be done, I think it is around $2500 (but I may be way off). Vacationing in Norway soon?
Craig

By: Chris Ott

Chris Ott — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:30:27 +0000

They’ve had these better batteries since 1995. http://www.physorg.com/news3539.html I don’t know what all the stalling is about? It’s hard to take this R&D seriously. But let’s hope.

By: Selena

Selena — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:30:52 +0000

I would like to purchase one of these new think cars. I own 3 of the original think cars from 2002. can anyone send me information on purchasing a new one??

By: Sick and Tired

Sick and Tired — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:21:56 +0000

I wish we could get a car company involved that is just starting out, that has no hidden aggenda. I’m not just talking about GM, but all of them. I wish people would just wake up! If the car companies wanted good working electric cars we would have them right now! Ones that don’t have a bunch of lame batteries that are not worth a crap on purpose so no one will want them, I mean they say WOW! We can get 40 miles a gallon on gas cars, well if I’m not mistaken Shelby had a carbrator that got 100 miles a gallon in the 60’s, sold it to ford and then they sit on the technology given to them. That’s just B.S. I hope your batterey is good and that they really bring it out.So we can buy it I love the idea of battery powered cars, why not solar/battery powered cars? with no gas at all. What they wouldn’t make as much money doing that would they? I hope they do one day, and not say it will be out in 7 yrs, or some lame false number. I’m just sick and tired of all the technology of the past 20 years have been greatly improved, but our cars have fallen backwards,as far as mpg, could someone please explain that one to me, cause we have alot of smart people around the world, but yet we can’t get more per gal? Well I hope A123 doesn’t sell out to any car or oil company, if they do their car will never do good. Good Luck!